Oglesby Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in this part of Central Texas for over twenty years, and I can tell you straight up—Oglesby gets hammered in a way that most folks don’t expect until it’s too late. We sit right in that corridor where the dry, hot air from the west slams into the moist Gulf breeze coming up from the southeast. That collision doesn’t just brew a summer thunderstorm; it stacks the atmosphere like a layer cake, and when those clouds get tall enough, they start spinning out hail the size of golf balls or bigger. And because we’re not in the hill country with all those ridges to break things up, the wind just screams across the open ranchland with nothing to slow it down. A straight-line wind gust of 70 or 80 mph isn’t rare here—it’s a Tuesday in May.

The real kicker is the timing. Our severe season runs from March through June, and then again in October, but it’s those spring months that are brutal. You’ll get a front stall right over us, and it’ll sit there for hours, dropping wave after wave of hail. That’s the worst part—it’s not one quick pass. It’s repeated impacts on the same shingles, and once the granules get knocked loose, the mat underneath is exposed. Then the next storm rolls through a week later, and the wind peels that weakened tab right off. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but up close they were dotted with soft spots you could push your thumb through. It’s not a matter of *if* your roof takes a hit here; it’s a matter of how many hits it can take before you call me.